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I see developers are planning to raze the City Center Motel & the Primrose Apartments downtown to make room for a multi-million dollar retail/condo project. Its supposed to meet the city's request for a building that will 'give high priority to human scale and livability'.

I'm not quite sure what I think about this - mixed, I guess. I'm sure the new building will look much (much) better than the existing ones - even if it is 70 feet tall.

But the apartments that rent out for less than $400/month are probably the last of the affordable options left in Bend. And the new condos may go for well over $1 million each. OK - as a homeowner, I can assume that will trickle on down and make my property values raise, too. But if I were starting out and looking for affordable rents on an entry-level salary, thats bad bad news.

The good news is that the city-owned apartments will net a big chunk of change for the City Police Department.

I would love to see them tear down the City Center Motel. I'm just perplexed as to how that piece of crap is still in business. Places like that in downtown Bend really need to be demolished._________________Rickless

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Gentrification (a.k.a. economic displacement) refers to the process whereby a low-rent neighborhood is transformed into a high-rent neighborhood through redevelopment, usually in conjunction with changing demographics and an influx of wealthier residents.

Gentrification (a.k.a. economic displacement) refers to the process whereby a low-rent neighborhood is transformed into a high-rent neighborhood through redevelopment, usually in conjunction with changing demographics and an influx of wealthier residents.